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cattyish
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If you want tattoos, get them done in Scotland. That's what the infectious diseases consultant told me.
I suspect that yer young, pierced and tattooed gent. was fair delighted to show off his beastie tattoo.
Cattyish, I've seen many tattoos.
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Piglet
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I understand they have them in Edinburgh at this time of year ...
I'll see myself out. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I'm heading northwards tomorrow (I'm currently at D's mum's in Essex) and flying up to Edinburgh tomorrow evening, and then going up to Orkney with my sister for a brief visit to my dad over the weekend before heading back to Canada on Monday.
You will try and not have the weather too hot, won't you? I'm absolutely frazzled down here - 29° is not within the comfort-zone of the lesser-spotted Orcadian piglet.
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daisymay
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Ive been in the Scottish church in London to this evening and it is very good. I love it.
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Lothlorien
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That is good to hear,daisymay. It is great to find somewhere where you feel a good fit for you. (Actually meaning a generic you, not just daisymay.)
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Japes
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I have had the most lovely holiday in Scotland and am readjusting to daily life back in the middle of England with maybe not the best grace...
I won't leave it as long next time. Seven years away is too much.
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cattyish
Wuss in Boots
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Japes, seven years sounds like a very long time. Haste ye back!
It's rather warm around here today and I nearly melted running, then nearly melted again when Mr C decided we could go for a nice walk before tea.
The washing is largely dry, with just a couple of things to air out properly and about six items on the line. That should be everything ready to pack for New Yoik on Saturday. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) I have bought some tartan pencils and small wooden heilan' coos to take along as small gifts, and I have Tetley's tea and Cadbury's chocolate as ordered for our friends.
Cattyish, still procratinating with skill and effect.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Japes:
... Seven years away is too much.
Certainly would be! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
I had a lovely couple of days in Orkney - the weather was pleasantly warm (for Orkney) but cool enough to be a blessed relief from what we'd had in the south.
When we visited my dad in the old people's home, there were people doing a doggy agility show in the garden, and it was lovely sitting outside watching them; they were pretty-much beginners, and consequently very entertaining! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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North East Quine
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I am being encouraged to tweet, and am posting this in the hope that the casual observer might think that I am tweeting. I'm at a lunchtime concert of C 18th music composed by, or dedicated to, women at the ever-wonderful Glasgow Women's Library.
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Japes
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Sorry, Cattyish and Piglet, I've only just seen your kind responses. I definitely won't leave it as long again.
I do admit, it is not outside the realms of probability that moving to Scotland in my older age would be on the cards. Work, for now, is most easily found in England for me, though, (as it was for my Scottish parents, and their Scottish parents and other relations) and unless that changes I will stay here.
I loved the years I lived in Scotland in the early 2000s, and it took a very long time to readjust when I was moved South again.
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North East Quine
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Off to Inverness. The museum is commemorating my axe murderer great uncle!
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Alan Cresswell
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Why did he murder an axe?
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Perhaps the hatched was buried!
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Wesley J
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Bollocks, cannae spell. A hatchet was meant, a hatchet it is.
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Piglet
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I think if any of my great-uncles were a murderer (axe or otherwise) I'd probably rather that people just forget about it ...
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Stercus Tauri
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I think if any of my great-uncles were a murderer (axe or otherwise) I'd probably rather that people just forget about it ...
Some of us don't have any heroic or even good ancestors, so we have to make do with our villains. According to my Dear Old Mother, one of ours on my father's side was strung up in Edinburgh, which led to the Porteous riot. I have absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back it up, apart from tradition and an intriguing similarity to some continuing family names. Virtue may be its own reward, but villainy makes better stories.
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Welease Woderwick
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I think someone once said:
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The evil that men do lives after them,
the good is oft interred with their bones
[It's a good line, that - perhaps someone should put it in a play.]
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Pigwidgeon
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I think someone once said:
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The evil that men do lives after them,
the good is oft interred with their bones
[It's a good line, that - perhaps someone should put it in a play.]
I don't think anyone would ever come to see it, or any other plays by someone who would write a line like that.
![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
(But if anyone is that desperate, the RSC will be doing it this coming season.)
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North East Quine
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I had a great evening at the launch of the Next of Kin exhibition.
The BBC website fails to mention that "defending himself" with an axe actually meant killing people. He was mentioned in dispatches as having killed three, the regimental history claims he killed five, but the Inverness Courier claimed that he killed ten men single handedly. When I was a girl, the museum displayed the press cuttings, full of gory detail. Now he is just described as "fending off" the attacking Germans with his axe.
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Piglet
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My only connection to the First World War was a great-uncle, Tom, who was killed shortly after arriving in France. I don't even know if he actually saw any action; my understanding is that he was killed accidentally by a mis-fire from his own gun.
At least it wasn't a mis-fire from NEQ's Great-Uncle George's axe ...
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Stercus Tauri
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
I had a great evening at the launch of the Next of Kin exhibition.
The BBC website fails to mention that "defending himself" with an axe actually meant killing people. He was mentioned in dispatches as having killed three, the regimental history claims he killed five, but the Inverness Courier claimed that he killed ten men single handedly. When I was a girl, the museum displayed the press cuttings, full of gory detail. Now he is just described as "fending off" the attacking Germans with his axe.
A brave man indeed, unlike any of my known ancestors, but how did he happen to have a forester's axe with him on the front line? A pocket knife I could understand, but a dirty great two handed axe as well as the usual personal artillery?
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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His machine gun had jammed, and he was supposed to either bring it back or disable it to prevent it being used by the Germans. I assume he had the axe for the specific purpose of disabling the gun.
The citation in the London Gazette described it as an "axe" but the local newspaper reports called it a "trench hatchet" Each description varies considerably in detail. It may well have been something much smaller than a forester's axe.
What baffles me is why he was awarded the Russian Order of St George.
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Stercus Tauri
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
His machine gun had jammed, and he was supposed to either bring it back or disable it to prevent it being used by the Germans. I assume he had the axe for the specific purpose of disabling the gun.
The citation in the London Gazette described it as an "axe" but the local newspaper reports called it a "trench hatchet" Each description varies considerably in detail. It may well have been something much smaller than a forester's axe.
What baffles me is why he was awarded the Russian Order of St George.
That makes perfectly good sense, and it's also a cautionary lesson in how history is written and passed on. Take David and Goliath for example. Goliath may just have been a wee Glaswegian with a really filthy temper, but it made a much more memorable story if he was written up as a giant.
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Wesley J
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quote:
Originally posted by North East Quine:
[...] What baffles me is why he was awarded the Russian Order of St George.
The Revolution was young, and they were happy to support anyone who showed bravery against the Germans, I suppose.
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Alan Cresswell
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quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
[...] What baffles me is why he was awarded the Russian Order of St George.
The Revolution was young, and they were happy to support anyone who showed bravery against the Germans, I suppose.
If the Order of St George was awarded in 1915, the Revolution would have been so young it was premature. Besides, the "Order of St George" would be an unusual title for an award given by an Atheist, Communist Revolutionary government.
It would seem much more likely it was awarded by Tsarist Russia, before the Revolution. Which, of course, adds nothing to why it was awarded to a Scotsman for actions in Flanders.
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Wesley J
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I just knew my post was premature, not having looked up the date. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) Though, as long as the Russians could get one over the Germans, I guess that part still counts. Except that we may not know the exact circumstances.
The Wiki link to the Order is here; not sure if this will help to elucidate the mystery. But it seems that at least two more Brits got it bestowed on them in WW1. Hmm.
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We have a similar award of the Order of St George recorded on a war memorial in the Hunter Valley coalfields. A local historian has told us that these awards were spread out among the Entente Cordiale allies as an acknowledgement of the alliance.
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daisymay
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I have been at the Scottish church today in London at 1pm and it was very good ! And they give us feed after !
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Welease Woderwick
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Yes, food always helps!
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daisymay
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I am going to Scottish in England do the one. It is very good at night.
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Originally posted by daisymay:
I am going to Scottish in England do the one. It is very good at night.
Have a blessed time
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North East Quine
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It has been pouring rain since lunchtime. I have only had eight guisers so far. I have visions of having a lot of left over sweeties.
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Lothlorien
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It has been pouring rain since lunchtime. I have only had eight guisers so far. I have visions of having a lot of left over sweeties.
Last year I saw children in fancy dress in our car park downstairs. Perhaps they may have been visiting McDs.. Nothing last night at all, but I would not have expected it. I live in a security block of apartments where visitors need to be admitted through electronic buzzer. There are children who live here, but I am fairly sure there would be a big stink raised were someone to admit a group of non-residents. It sounds insular, but at least there are few visits from weird religious groups, salesmen selling discounts on gas and electricity etc.
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Piglet
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The only advantage I can see to living in the flat we're in at the moment is not getting any guisers. This also means that, unlike NEQ, there are no left-over sweeties ...
There were, however, a couple of fully-made-up Goths in the corridor when I went downstairs to do the laundry earlier on.
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Alan Cresswell
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
It has been pouring rain since lunchtime.
We had no rain here at all. That's the awful Glasgow climate for you.
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daisymay
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Ive just been to the Scottish Church in India, I has been very good.
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***Tangent**** Cottontail, can you empty your mailbox as I'm trying to pm you!
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'Tis done.
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daisymay
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Ive been at the kirk church today at 1pm. It is always good. It is a Scotland in Londay and still celtent.
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Piglet
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A "Scotland in London" sounds like an excellent idea!
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Welease Woderwick
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Isn't there a London Scottish Rugby team?
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Alan Cresswell
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A London Irish too.
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daisymay
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Ive been in the scotish church today at won and it is very good in London. It also give food to eat after. And it is as pray us ofter.
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North East Quine
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On Saturday I saw a Syrian refugee woman hold out her arms to greet a Scottish friend with the word "Bosies!" She speaks in very broken English, but she's learning the important words!
( bosies )
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Piglet
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Love it! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Talking of refugees and kindly acts, my brother and his girlfriend have decided that instead of Christmas presents from the family, they'd like us to give donations to refugees, which I think is a rather good idea, and as we have a refugee family sponsored by the Cathedral I think I'll put something in the collection plate for them.
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North East Quine
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His Majesty's Theatre is giving free panto tickets to the Syrian refugees. This time last year they were still in the camp in Jordan; this year they are trying to fathom out Dick Whittington in Aberdeen. I hope they enjoy it!
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daisymay
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I have been in London church in this evening and it was very good !
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Piglet
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I've opened a new thread for 2017, so I'll say farewell and put this one to bed.
Piglet, AS host
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